PROBLEM OF LEADERSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 16

PROBLEM OF LEADERSHIP

DEMOCRACY’S WEAK POINT. RUGBY, November 26. (Received November 27, at noon.) At Wallasey, Mr Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, referred to the problem of leadership which he said was a much more subtle affair in a democracy than under a dictatorship, because democracy rests on the belief that a lective community was not an end in itself but the means to a better life of the individuals who compose it. Democracy, therefore, was less tidy than other forms of Government because the human spirit grew where it lived. - It must continually throw up throughout its structure men and women of capacity who would lead it at the growing points of its development. An alternative was a select body of masters which immediately would imperil the good life of the individual. Democracy was broad based for this reason. It was sometimes slow to move, but it was also very resistant to any attempt to overturn it. To-day it demanded a disciplined effort in order to drive through the complex problems which faced modern communities.